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Book SynopsisThe growing centrality of risk management in pro-market governance raises important questions regarding how risks are produced, and why? Who and what is included in, and excluded from, risk management, and why? And, what is the relationship between the rise of risk management and neoliberalism? Drawing on various political economy approaches, this volume addresses these questions by examining - both analytically and empirically - diverse meanings and practices of risk management across a range of scales and themes ranging from austerity to climate change to housing and debt. The authors investigate the relationship between shifts in contemporary capitalism and the ways in which neoliberal forms of risk management have emerged, been reproduced and normalized, and, transformed historically.
Trade ReviewSoederberg presents readers with a collection of scholarly articles and academic essays focused on the relationship between risk, global contemporary capitalism, and neoliberal modes of governance. She has organized the contributions that make up the main body of the text in three parts devoted to risking housing against capitalism, risking poverty against growth, and risking climate against globalism. The editor is a faculty member of Queen’s University in Canada. -- Annotation ©2016 * (protoview.com) *
Table of ContentsIntroduction - Risk Management in Global Capitalism - Susanne Soederberg SECTION I: RISKING HOUSING Revanchism, Stigma, and the Production of Ignorance: Housing Struggles in Austerity Britain - Tom Slater Neoliberalization Through Housing Finance, the Displacement of Risk, and Canadian Housing Policy: Challenging Minsky’s Financial Instability Hypothesis - Alan Walks and Dylan Simone A Multidimensional Approach to Urban Entrepreneurialism, Financialization, and Gentrification in the High-Rise Residential Market of Inner Santiago, Chile - Ernesto Lopez-Morales SECTION II: RISKING POVERTY Financialization of Poverty: Proletarianizing the Financial Crisis in Post-Developmental Korea - Chang Kyung-Sup Household Debt and the Financialization of Social Reproduction: Theorizing the UK Housing and Hunger Crises - Adrienne Roberts Navigating the Aftermath of Crisis and Risk in Mexico and Turkey - Thomas Marois and Hepzibah Munoz-Martinez SECTION III: RISKING CLIMATE Accumulating Insecurity and Manufacturing Risk Along the Energy Frontier - Michael Watts Risky Ventures: Financial Inclusion, Risk Management and the Uncertain Rise of Index-Based Insurance - Marcus Taylor The World Bank’s Neoliberal Language of Resilience - Romain Felli
